exter

exter m (plural exters, diminutive extertje n)

1. Obsolete form of ekster.

• exterus

From Proto-Italic *eksteros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros, from *h₁eǵʰs (whence ex); equivalent to ex (“out of, from within”) +‎ -ter (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ster/, [ˈɛks̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ster/, [ˈɛkst̪er]

exter (feminine extera, neuter exterum, comparative exterior, superlative extrēmus or extimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. on the outside, outward, external, outer, far, remote

   Synonyms: adventīcius, aliēnus, barbaricus, barbarus, exōticus, extrāneus, peregrīnus, prosēlytus

2. of another country; foreign, strange

   Synonym: extrārius

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.350:

     “[...] Et nōs fās extera quaerere rēgna.”

     “[It is] right for us, too, to seek a foreign realm.”
     (The context can be understood as someplace “external to” or “far from” one’s homeland as well as “foreign” or “strange”.)

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• exterius
• externus
• extrā

• “exter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

exter

1. second-person singular imperative of exteren